Re: [PATCH] cooker: Add option of specifying indvidual tasks for targets

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 14:39 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Currently its near enough impossible to tell bitbake to run target X,
> > task Y and target A, task B. We could hack various parts of the API
> > around but it would mean incompatibilities.
> >
> > An alternative is to accept the syntax "<target>:do_<task>" as a target
> > name. The default task would be used where the task is unspecified.
> >
> 
> This should be documented in manuals as well IMO

Totally agreed.

Hi Scott, we need to document this new syntax! ;-)

(I was planning to talk to Scott when I reached the point of merging
this)

Cheers,

Richard

> > This has the advantage that its neat/clean code and works from all
> > current APIs including the commandline.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py
> > index db4cb51..cc7d84e 100644
> > --- a/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py
> > +++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py
> > @@ -449,9 +449,14 @@ class BBCooker:
> >          current = 0
> >          runlist = []
> >          for k in fulltargetlist:
> > +            ktask = task
> > +            if ":do_" in k:
> > +                k2 = k.split(":do_")
> > +                k = k2[0]
> > +                ktask = k2[1]
> >              taskdata.add_provider(localdata, self.recipecache, k)
> >              current += 1
> > -            runlist.append([k, "do_%s" % task])
> > +            runlist.append([k, "do_%s" % ktask])
> >              bb.event.fire(bb.event.TreeDataPreparationProgress(current, len(fulltargetlist)), self.data)
> >          taskdata.add_unresolved(localdata, self.recipecache)
> >          bb.event.fire(bb.event.TreeDataPreparationCompleted(len(fulltargetlist)), self.data)
> >
> >
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